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• White House drops plan to scale back college savings plans

  27-01-2015 23:43
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House said Tuesday it is dropping a proposal to scale back the tax benefits of college savings plans amid a backlash from both Republicans and Democrats.
  
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• Operator of errant drone works for intel agency

  27-01-2015 22:55
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The man who has acknowledged flying a drone onto the White House grounds works for a U.S. intelligence agency.
  
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• Obama wants to regulate drone use after White House incident

  27-01-2015 22:20
  
  Washington, Jan 28 (IANS/EFE) US President Barack Obama urged regulation of the commercial and recreational use of un-crewed aircraft -- or drones -- a rapidly growing industry, after one of those devices crashed on the White House grounds. In remarks released Tuesday in an interview with CNN recorded in India, Obama commented that drones can perform "incredibly useful" tasks and gave the example of their ability to monitor crops or the plan by Amazon to use them to deliver packages. Obama said
  
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• White House Budget To Support Biotech Rally

  27-01-2015 22:00
  
  On Tuesday, the White House announced that Obama’s 2016 budget will include a hefty investment in antibiotic-resistant bacteria. The President’s plan includes about $1.2 billion worth of funding for research ...
  
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• New Jersey senators, congressmen denounce drilling proposal

  27-01-2015 21:55
  
  New Jersey's U.S. senators and two congressmen have denounced a White House draft proposal that would authorize drilling in the Atlantic Ocean. Sens. Cory Booker and Robert Menendez and Rep. Frank Pallone ...
  
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• White House drone crash pilot works for US intel

  27-01-2015 21:30
  
  The pilot of a unmanned commercial drone that crashed at the White House and sparked a security alert works for the US National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, officials revealed Tuesday. The agency -- which provides vital imagery and analysis for US military and civilian intelligence agencies -- said one of its staff members had been questioned by the Secret Service. "The employee was off duty and is not involved in work related to drones or unmanned aerial vehicles in any capacity at NGA,
  
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• The White House Drone Crash Was Apparently Caused By An Intelligence Staffer Who Was Drinking

  27-01-2015 21:23
  
  A federal intelligence worker apparently...
  
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• Government worker who crashed drone on White House grounds was drinking: report

  27-01-2015 21:03
  
  A government worker contacted law enforcement Tuesday morning to say that he accidentally flew a drone onto the White House grounds overnight.
  
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• Bowe Bergdahl to face desertion charges: Why the White House is embarrassed

  27-01-2015 20:28
  
  U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, who was held captive for five years after disappearing from his base in Afghanistan in 2009, will be charged with desertion, according to NBC News. Bergdahl was released last year in a prisoner swap with the Taliban.
  
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• Obama calls for drone regulation after White House crash

  27-01-2015 20:04
  
  The FAA is currently drafting drone rules
  
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• White House welcomes Democratic delay on pushing Iran sanctions

  27-01-2015 19:59
  
  By Roberta Rampton ON BOARD AIR FORCE ONE (Reuters) - The Obama administration welcomed Democratic senators' move to delay a push for new sanctions against Iran until late March, a senior administration official said on Tuesday. U.S. Senator Robert Menendez, co-author of legislation that would tighten economic restrictions on Iran if there is no deal by the end of June, said in a letter on Tuesday he and other Democratic senators would not back passing the bill until after March 24, and only in
  
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• White House opens up southern Atlantic to offshore drilling

  27-01-2015 19:57
  
  But Obama administration moves to restrict drilling in Alaska.
  
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• More Americans Say Thumbs Up on the Economy

  27-01-2015 19:30
  
  In another bit of good economic news for the White House, a pair of private sector groups that track consumer confidence reported significant positive movement this past week. Gallup began tracking the economic confidence of Americans on a daily basis in 2008, and until recently, the poll had never been in positive territory.
  
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• Obama sees need to move on drone rules now

  27-01-2015 19:09
  
  President Barack Obama says the wayward quadcopter that crashed harmlessly on the White House grounds shows that the U.S. must update its laws to manage the expanding frontier of commercial and consumer ...
  
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• Obama calls for drone controls after White House crash

  27-01-2015 18:48
  
  US President Barack Obama called for drones to be more closely regulated Tuesday, after a "quadcopter" crashed on the White House grounds prompting a security alert. Drones like the DJI Phantom which crashed on the White House grounds in the early hours of Monday are used most often for collecting often stunning aerial video, but the authorities fear they could also pose a security threat. "The drone that landed in the White House you buy in Radio Shack," said Obama. Obama al
  
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• Walker forms first committee for 2016 run

  27-01-2015 18:42
  
  MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republican Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has taken the first formal step toward running for president. He has formed a new tax-exempt group that can facilitate paying for his activities as he seriously eyes a 2016 White House bid.
  
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• Obama to seek more funds for antibiotic-resistant bacteria fight

  27-01-2015 18:27
  
  President Barack Obama will request a doubling of funds for fighting and preventing antibiotic-resistant bacteria in his 2016 budget, the White House said Tuesday. The budget blueprint to be unveiled in February will request $1.2 billion, twice the amount granted by Congress in 2015. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that each year at least two million illnesses and 23,000 deaths are caused by antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the United States. Of this amount, more than
  
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• Beware the Drone Laws

  27-01-2015 17:43
  
  "The eagle has crash-landed in Washington," cried Senator Charles Schumer. "The eagle has crash-landed in Washington," cried Senator Charles Schumer of New York, in a statement that used the incident to amplify his call for FAA regulations on drones. The drone that penetrated the White House grounds and triggered a lockdown of the complex was essentially a toy, flown by a man who frantically called the Secret Service after it got away and insisted he never intended to land it
  
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• Obama to seek more funds for antibiotic resistant bacteria

  27-01-2015 17:35
  
  President Barack Obama will request a doubling of funds for fighting and preventing antibiotic-resistant bacteria in his 2016 budget, the White House said Tuesday. The budget blueprint to be unveiled in February will request $1.2 billion, twice the amount granted by Congress in 2015. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that each year at least two million illnesses and 23,000 deaths are caused by antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the United States. Of this amount, more than
  
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• Democrats say they won't support Iran sanctions bill for now

  27-01-2015 16:54
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A group of U.S. Senate Democrats have told the White House that they will not support passage of an Iran sanctions bill until at least the end of March.
  
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• Obama: Drone that landed at White House available at RadioShack - CNN

  27-01-2015 16:53
  
  The type of small drone that crashed on the White House grounds on Monday is available at a chain like RadioShack Corp and illustrates the need for more regulation over such new technologies, U.S. President Barack Obama told CNN. In an interview broadcast on Tuesday, Obama said he had asked the Federal Aviation Administration to examine how the United States is managing the influx of flying devices "because the drone that landed in the White House you buy in RadioShack." The device kno
  
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• Obama aide asks Congress for enhanced trade-deal authority

  27-01-2015 16:29
  
  The Obama administration's top trade official says Congress must return enhanced negotiating powers to the White House in order to cut important trade deals with Pacific-rim nations and others. U.S. Trade ...
  
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• Modi says 'touched' by Obama gifting Vivekananda book

  27-01-2015 16:16
  
  New Delhi, Jan 27 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi Tuesday said he was "touched" when US President Barack Obama gifted him a book on Swami Vivekananda during his visit to the White House last year. Modi was replying to a question on how he felt when he went to the White House as the prime minister. He said he never imagined that he would get a chance to visit the White House ever. Modi described as "touching" his visit to the White House after taking over as prime minister.
  
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• Never imagined will be in White House: Obama

  27-01-2015 16:12
  
  New Delhi, Jan 27 (IANS) US President Barack Obama Tuesday said he never imagined he would enter the White House some day.
  
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• Obama says US must catch up to ensure drones are safe

  27-01-2015 15:20
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States has fallen behind technological advancements that have made small drones readily available and must update its laws to ensure safety, President Barack Obama said Tuesday, in his first public comments about a drone that crashed on the White House grounds.
  
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• Innovative Architecture Addresses Student Digital Privacy Act Challenges

  27-01-2015 15:00
  
  SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 27, 2015 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Resilient Network Systems, Inc., a leading provider of advanced access control and privacy solutions, and the National Laboratory for Education Transformation (NLET), a Silicon Valley non-profit dedicated to modern solutions for education, are collaborating to deliver new technologies and services that meet Federal and State legislation to protect the privacy of students' information online and to facilitate secure access between education inst
  
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• Top U.S. trade official urges Congress to back trade agenda

  27-01-2015 13:53
  
  The top U.S. trade official urged Congress to back the administration's trade agenda on Tuesday and said an ambitious Pacific trade pact is nearing completion. In remarks prepared for delivery to key congressional committees, U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman said the administration looked to lawmakers to pass bipartisan legislation allowing a streamlined approval process for trade deals, such as the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership. TPP chief negotiators are meeting in New York this w
  
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• The drone debate hits close to home for White House

  27-01-2015 09:45
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The drone-control debate has hit uncomfortably close to home for the White House, thanks to an apparently hapless operator who sent his quadcopter crashing inside the presidential compound.
  
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• Man behind White House drone crash incident claims was a 'recreational accident'

  27-01-2015 07:53
  
  Washington, Jan 27 (ANI): Shortly after a drone was recovered within the precincts of the White House, the man operating the drone has called on the United States Secret Service to "self-report" his involvement after seeing reports of the incident on the news. The drone's owner, who is a government employee, said that he was using it "recreationally." Brian Leary, Secret Service spokesman said that he has been interviewed by the agency and has been fully cooperative, reported the CNN. The Secret
  
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• Insight - On climate change, "not a scientist" not enough for some U.S. Republicans

  27-01-2015 07:12
  
  By Valerie Volcovici and Amanda Becker WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Rick Perry's farewell speech to the Texas legislature listed the accomplishments expected from an outgoing Republican governor of the country's largest oil-producing state. "We have expanded our economy while protecting our environment," said Perry, who is openly exploring a second White House run in 2016. It was a greener message than the one he delivered ahead of his last presidential campaign, when he called cli
  
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• On climate change, 'not a scientist' not enough for some U.S. Republicans

  27-01-2015 07:10
  
  By Valerie Volcovici and Amanda Becker WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Rick Perry's farewell speech to the Texas legislature listed the accomplishments expected from an outgoing Republican governor of the country's largest oil-producing state. "We have expanded our economy while protecting our environment," said Perry, who is openly exploring a second White House run in 2016. It was a greener message than the one he delivered ahead of his last presidential campaign, when he called cli
  
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• Obama to propose sharp increase in antibiotic funding

  27-01-2015 06:35
  
  U.S. President Barack Obama's fiscal 2016 budget request will propose nearly doubling federal funding to some $1.2 billion for the fight against antibiotic-resistant bacteria, the White House said on Tuesday. The budget, which the administration is set to release next Monday, will include an almost $1 billion proposed investment in Department of Health and Human Services research to combat antibiotic resistance. In addition, funding would increase at the departments of Veterans Affairs and
  
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• Obama includes Republicans in big delegation to meet new Saudi King

  27-01-2015 05:33
  
  NEW DELHI (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will fly a 30-member delegation including top officials and Republican foreign policy veterans to Riyadh on Tuesday to meet new Saudi Arabian King Salman as the crisis in neighboring Yemen continues to boil. Joining Obama in paying respects following the death of King Abdullah will be Republican statesmen James Baker, secretary of state in the George H.W. Bush administration, and Brent Scowcroft, national security adviser to presidents Ford and H.W. B
  
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• White House drone crash "was accident"

  27-01-2015 02:35
  
  A US official says a Washington man has claimed responsibility for a drone that crashed on the White House grounds.
  
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• Probation for ex-officer shot on job, lauded, later arrested

  27-01-2015 01:22
  
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A former Philadelphia police officer honored by the White House before a downward spiral that left him in custody on $60 million bail has been sentenced to probation.
  
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• Could Washington, D.C., Become the American Capital of Urban Farming?

  27-01-2015 00:57
  
  From the White House to the Washington Memorial, it's the famed symbols of American governments past and present that define Washington, D.C. Forget bureaucratic institutions and monuments to the paper pushers that have walked their halls—Mchezaji "Che" Axum hopes to usurp these dominant images of the nation's capitol: He wants urban farms to come to mind when people think of the District of Columbia. “We’re still in the beginning stages of this food revolution,” says Axum, who leads
  
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• White House interview slip-up reveals hostage's first name

  27-01-2015 00:47
  White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough has revealed the first name of an American woman held hostage by Islamic State extremists whose identity has been kept concealed for a year and a half.
  
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